Initially there were four of us, as Petra Pan and MrWendell were delayed by work. The Professor, MaOldie, Crabro and I were a good way into the first game when the other two arrived (with a big bag of chocolate eclairs) so we finished, and had another round of teas, after the first scoring card appeared.
The Professor won this third of a victory but then the game began in earnest. As I had been successful in my last game with Crabro despite not getting involved in exchanging stock for shares in the aeroplaneless Abacus airline, I stayed clear of the scramble for those shares again and I was quietly confident, as the final scoring card appeared, that I had a respectable score. One by one my opponents declared their scores: sixty something, a couple of fifty-ishes and then Crabro with seventy-three.
I silently exulted, having tallied my score. Someone finally asked my total and I confessed to eighty-three. It was all looking good...and then MaOldie owned up to eighty-eight. Rats! That's three weeks running she has been victorious. Oh well. Hats off to a very good gamer. It had been a very pleasant evening in good company anyway. I'm really beginning to enjoy being the host. After all the fun, I'm already home. Grand!
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